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Elica, headed by Chairman Francesco Casoli and led by Chief Executive Officer Giulio Cocci, has operated on the kitchen hoods market since the 1970s. Today the company has seven plants worldwide in Italy, Poland, Mexico, India and China. 3,800 employees produce 20.7 million pieces ranging from hoods to motors every year.

Elica has two core businesses areas: cooking and motors.

In the first area, Elica is the world's leading manufacturer of cooker hoods for household use. In the second area, Fime brand holds the number 1 position in Europe for the design, production and sale of electric motors for household appliances and boilers.

The cooking business unit designs, manufactures and sells kitchen hoods for domestic use, with the Elica brand as well as for the world's leading manufacturers of household appliances and kitchens. For the Asian market, the company also produces hobs, ovens and sterilisers. The motors business unit manufactures and sells electric motors for appliances, hoods and boilers for household use.

Elica has developed an innovation-based method which harmoniously combines two different approaches: understanding the needs of customers and responding and anticipating their needs to create new market trends. In this way, the company has created genuine culture of innovation, also thanks to collaborations with universities and national and international research centres, consortia and the Ermanno Casoli Foundation.

All Elica products are tested at the Elica Propulsion Laboratory, the only laboratory in the world dedicated to hoods and the only lab in Italy, and one of only a few in Europe, capable of testing specific aspects of acoustics.

Over the years, the company has grown to become one of the world's leading players in the industry. It is worldwide market leader for cooker hoods and is gaining leadership positions for motors for central heating boilers in Western and Eastern Europe.